Patients
choose us because we care.
Family Planning Specialists
Medical Group recently celebrated 25 years of providing safe, compassionate
and confidential abortion care to women in the Bay Area (Oakland, San Francisco,
Hayward, Berkely) and Napa. We are proud to be the most experienced
surgical team in providing first and second trimester abortions.
Family Planning Specialists provides both first and second trimester abortions
up to 21 weeks and 6 days gestation. In the first trimester, patients
have three anesthesia options: conscious sedation, general or local
anesthesia. All second trimester patients receive general anesthesia. Family
Planning Specialists also offers the Abortion
Pill up to 9 weeks gestation as an alternative to surgery.
We schedule surgery three days each week. We can usually schedule your appointment
within one week. Please call us to discuss scheduling possibilities.
Family Planning Specialists’ staff of caring, dedicated nurses, doctors
and patient coordinators works hard to help patients feel comfortable. We
pride ourselves on being attentive to our patients’ needs and providing
individualized care.
We have the expertise and experience that makes women feel confident
in choosing Family Planning Specialists:
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Family
Planning Specialists was established in 1984 by our two co-medical
directors and our executive director. We are unique in that our original
leaders continue to oversee all aspects of care and have been a consistent
presence in the clinic since we opened. |
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Our facility
is spacious, modern, and easily accessible from major freeways. Patients
appreciate the comfort and cleanliness of our office. |
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Our medical team
is led by two board-certified obstetrician-gynecologists, each with
over 25 years of experience in the field of women’s health.
Both medical directors are members of the American College of Obstetricians
and Gynecologists. They are considered national experts on abortion,
and completed their educations at the most prestigious schools in
the nation. |
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Anesthesia is
provided by a board-certified anesthesiologist or a certified registered
nurse anesthetist. |
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In over 25 years
of providing abortions, Family Planning Specialists has consistently
maintained a complication rate of less than one percent—well
below the national average for providers. The quality of care provided
by our exceptionally skilled staff has made Family Planning Specialists
known nationwide as an outstanding facility. |
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In April 1996,
Family Planning Specialists became the first abortion provider in
California to be accredited with the CMA
/ AAAHC. Since
then, we have consistently received three-year accreditations from
the Institute for Medical
Quality (IMQ). |
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Family Planning
Specialists is a member of the National
Abortion Federation (NAF) and conforms to the standards for abortion
care determined by physician members of NAF. |
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